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New Hampshire in Brief
New Hampshire can be difficult to describe. The media takes a stab at it each primary season, but often misses slightly. New Hampshire has unique traits that are not often found elsewhere. For instance, New Hampshire is a classic old New England state. However, it is the most politically and definitely the most financially conservative state in New England. It is the only New England state that fully embraces Nascar and motor sports. It has both a blue collar hard working rural population and a newer yuppie population, and an old New Englander population, which can be blue collar, yuppie, or a combination of the two.

New Hampshire has the White Mountains, the Seacoast, the North Woods, and the Lakes Region. If you don’t like the outdoors New Hampshire is probably not for you. There are hunters, hikers, campers, kayakers, beachgoers, vacationers, and sightseers all around. For a state that is historically rural and continues to be predominantly made up of small towns and cities, it’s a well connected and developing state. Southern New Hampshire can access Boston pretty quickly. The job and housing market has grown steadily due in part to favorable tax laws and people migrating north away from higher cost housing in Massachusetts.

New Hampshire has a fierce independent streak. Not only are there a large number of Independent voters, but the state motto is ‘Live Free or Die’ and typically New Hampshirites don’t like to be told what to do particularly from the government. Less regulation leads to some unique neighbors like a racetrack that is next-door neighbors with a nudist colony. Also, it’s fairly common to see a big beautiful home right next door to a broken down trailer home. While this probably happens in other regions to, there is something uniquely New Hampshire about these odd pairings that you don’t see in the rest of New England. New Hampshire is distinctive in a way that better experienced than described.

 

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